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Pandemic has adversely impacted 44 percent of Indian women’s salaries

• BySheetal Sidhu     |    September 4, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely impacted 44 percent of women’s . As much as 60 percent of Indian women working part-time jobs and 37 percent of full-time employees faced pay cuts amidst the pandemic, a study conducted by consulting and analytics firm Economix Consulting Group (ECG) finds. A whopping 60 percent reported a worsening state of mental health.
Targeting working women between the ages of 20 and 60 years, ECG’s research report on the impact of COVID-19 on urban working women in India ran a pan-India survey among various professions ranging from the private sector, academic professionals, entrepreneurs, and medical professionals to understand the pandemic’s effect. It looked at various factors like working status, professional and personal workload, productivity, income, job losses, and domestic support systems. Many women let go of familiar daily schedules. Women working seven to ten hours a day in the pre-COVID-19 times have now reduced to 35 percent.

Between the two waves of COVID-19, 14 percent of women surveyed were compelled to switch to part-time jobs. Another 10 percent work less than four days a week, which were both attributed to declining business activity and the burden of household chores. On the other hand, those working more than 10 hours a day or having no fixed work timings also increased from four to 14 percent. Women working seven days a week increased by three percent.

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